Word: chirac
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...government plainly does not retain much hope for protection from the U.N. "We cannot live through another winter of siege," Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters in Vienna. Britain and France, the main contributors to the U.N. military force in Bosnia, reacted with dismay. French President Jacques Chirac, on his first visit to Washington since taking office, cautioned Sarajevo that an offensive "would be a grave error." He joined Bill Clinton in an appeal to the Bosnians for a cease-fire...
...Chirac pressed Washington hard to vote in the Security Council to approve reinforcements for the U.N. Protection Force, UNPROFOR, in Bosnia. Clinton was amenable, but Republican congressional leaders, believing the peacekeeping mission to be a failure, objected to paying the customary U.S. peacekeeping assessment of 31%, which could mean an additional $128 million for the rest of this year. The French President argued that the reinforcements, up to 12,500 French, British and Dutch troops, were needed "to react any time U.N. soldiers are attacked, humiliated or deprived of their freedom...
After biding his time for almost 20 years, Jacques Chirac has made it: he has been elected President [FRANCE, May 15]. But now that Chirac is in, he faces a most fearsome task, as he will have to steer a tricky course between the conflicting aspirations of voters who range from youths and unemployed people to the upper class. What's more, boosting growth by hiking wages and limiting the public deficit might turn into a headache. Let's just hope that the political animal's cherished slogan, "France for All," won't become a dead letter. So many hopes...
...salute sounded at the Elysee Palace in Paris today asConservative Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for nearly two decades, succeeded Socialist Francois Mitterrand. "I feel that hope has been vested in me," Chirac said in his inaugural address, promising to govern with "dignity, simplicity and loyalty to our republican values." Chirac, 62, failed in two earlier bids for the presidency.TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sanctonsays the excitement was contagious among crowds who lined the Champs Elysee this morning. "The whole country's rooting for this administration to succeed," Sancton says. "In France, there's a sense that you have...
During the campaign, Chirac accurately described a "social fracture" in French society. Whether his contradictory program will actually lower unemployment is an open question, but Chirac himself may offer something that will help heal that fracture. Unlike the monarchical Mitterrand or the dry Jospin or the hatemongering Le Pen, he has empathy, gregariousness, heart. One thing the alienated French may require from their politicians right now is "contact"; Chirac is the one to provide it. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris